To better appreciate the world around us, we must use our senses. Nature and place is seen, heard, and felt through our senses. American literature tends to talk about nature and place. One of the main ways authors make their stories interesting is through sound and sight. Some American authors make places live on in memory through the use of personification, imagery, and repetition. Chicago by Carl Sandberg is made very memorable. He does this through the use of imagery. “Building, breaking, rebuilding,” Line 17. This is imagery because it forces you to imagine something getting built, destroyed, and rebuilt as you read. Personification is used to give the city more of an impact on the reader. In the story the city is referred to like it’s …show more content…
The use of imagery in the poem makes the reader think about what's being said. Imagery is used to describe what wilderness gave to the speaker through your senses.“There is a ___ in me” Stanza 1-6. The imagery here is the reader imagining the metaphorical animal within the speaker, such as a wolf, and how their qualities translate to the speaker. Repetition is used to start the poem.“There is a ___ in me” Stanza 1-6. The repetition of the speaker saying various animals are within him adds to the imagery of him saying that. Personification is used throughout the poem, Sandburg uses personification to help grow the other two elements. The entirety of the first 6 stanzas. More specifically the use of “there is a ___ in me” and “the wilderness”. The entire story has prominent use of personification, the first 6 stanzas translate the animal traits into the traits of a human. This is added onto by saying that “the wilderness” gave those traits. Even though the topics are different, Sandberg still uses imagery, repetition, and personification in a way where they work in tandem with each …show more content…
Imagery is used throughout the poem. The house is described to you through your senses multiple times. “your mottled air of bark and working sunlight,” Line 5. The house’s air being described this way causes the reader to use their senses to think about the home’s condition. Repetition is used to add more to the tone in the story. Even though it is used only once, the way it is used gives a sense of experience, and sadness. “Repetition - “House of Five Fires” “ Line 1/26. “House of Five Fires” being repeated furthers the tone that the speaker describes the home by adding onto the idea that they lived there. Personification is used to structure the poem; Hill did this by the unique placement of the personification, doing do really added on to the poem. “roof curving its singing mouth above me.” Line 7. Details like the roof of the house are given “life” to add onto the mood of the poem. The house of five fires in Longhouse showcases the importance of using sensory